Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...suddenly, charging up on the inside, a horse slipped between Big Bim and the rail-into the gap made by Roman's dropping back. It was Milky Way Farm's Gallahadion, with Carroll Bierman up, whom few had noticed inching his way along the rail. With powerful strides, Gallahadion pulled farther & farther away, reached the wire a length and a half ahead of Big Bim, who was desperately struggling to keep Arnold Hanger's Dit from second place...
...help. They cry for the arbiter of this musky underworld, and from behind the counter a grey old man, watching with cold, steel-blue eyes, rises slowly and shows the boys. And once old Ben shows the boys, he may be seen casually running off five hundred at straight rail...
...this film version of a Pulitzer prize play is an authentic, moving account of how a sluggish rail-splitter turned President. Hollywood has withstood the temptation to be spectacularly patriotic; and the result is one of those rare historical pictures which are devoid of all furor and fuss...
...towns below Narvik in Norway's long, slender, north-central neck, Allied landings were made to command the road (but no rail) connections into Sweden and the northern terminus of the one road into Norway's waist...
From towns along that rail spur, came word of a strong Norwegian mobilization, to cooperate with the Allies should they strike for Trondheim and the main rail line south to Oslo...